Preply
- Founded in 2012, Preply offers virtual live language tutoring for over 50 languages.
- The founders started Preply after they moved from Ukraine to the US.
- Preply recently raised $70 million in a Series C extension round led by Horizon Capital.
Over a decade ago, Preply CEO Kirill Bigai and his future cofounders Dmytro Voloshyn and Sergey Lukyanov moved from Ukraine to Boston for work. At the time, Bigai felt like his English proficiency wasn't where he wanted it to be. "On paper, I was intermediate, but I was struggling to connect with people for business, " he said.